Toronto International Film Festival Archives

’76 Days’ Is A Heartbreaking Inside Account Of The COVID Lockdown In A Wuhan Hospital [TIFF Review]

September 18, 2020 2:58 pm

Set entirely in Wuhan, China during the 76-day COVID lockdown in early 2020, “76 Days” is a tight, tense, and, at times, unrelentingly emotional account of front-line pandemic medical combat. As a piece of hig...

‘The Water Man’: David Oyelowo Plunges You Into A Sweet, Spielbergian Adventure [TIFF Review]

Monica Castillo

September 18, 2020 11:22 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

David Oyelowo’s directorial feature debut, “The Water Man,” plays like a kid-friendly throwback to Steven Spielberg’s '80s movies. It’s a coming-of-age story filled with adventure, friendship, and some serious...

‘The Boy From Medellín’: Matthew Heineman Shows A Different Side To Reggaeton Artist J. Balvin [TIFF Review]

Monica Castillo

September 17, 2020 9:47 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Before J. Balvin became a record-breaking chart-topper, he was José Álvaro Osorio Balvín, just another boy in Medellín, Colombia, with big dreams and an even bigger drive to make them come true. In Matthew Hei...

‘Another Round’ With Mads Mikkelsen Is A Boozy Blast Of A Midlife Crisis Movie [TIFF Review]

Marshall Shaffer

September 16, 2020 4:35 pm

Festivals, Reviews

Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” begins with the frenzied depiction of Danish youth completing a beer “case race,” though the debauched fun is fleeting for us – and them. The sequence collides with the film...

‘Violation’ Is A Smart & Visceral Take On The Rape-Revenge Narrative [TIFF Review]

Monica Castillo

September 16, 2020 11:36 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

True to its name, “Violation” is about an unforgivable transgression. Written, produced, and directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, their feature debut follows Miriam (Sims-Fewer) on at least t...

‘Shadow In The Cloud’: Roseanne Liang & Chloe Grace Moretz Talk About Their Batsh*t Crazy WWII Genre Mashup [TIFF Interview]

Rodrigo Perez

September 15, 2020 2:35 pm

Festivals, Interviews, News

As evinced already by its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, and the strong reactions it provoked—not to mention our caustic review—discussing and writing about the Midnight Madness movie “Shadow In...

‘City Hall’: Frederick Wiseman’s Latest Is Four-Star Competency Porn [TIFF Review]

Jason Bailey

September 14, 2020 10:45 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“The people who work for the city work for you,” explains Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, to a room full of his constituents. “They’re there to service you.” That simplest of ideas, a real gimme in the not-too-...

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Rosamund Pike: ‘I Was Getting Too Earnest For My Own Good’ [TIFF Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

September 14, 2020 10:22 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Festivals, Interviews, News

Rosamund Pike clearly relishes the opportunity to play characters with a bit of a nasty streak. Whether it's earning critical acclaim as the conniving Amy in David Fincher's "Gone Girl" or as a surgeon on a mi...

‘Summer of ’85’: François Ozon’s Young Romance is Best At Its Sunniest [TIFF Review]

Jason Bailey

September 13, 2020 11:00 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“Don’t take me for a psycho,” Alexis, the protagonist of François Ozon’s “Summer of ’85,” explains in the film’s opening voice-over. “Corpses are not my thing… Corpses are not my thing. They have a terrible ef...

‘MLK/FBI’ Is A Scathing Look At The FBI’s Attempts To Destroy Martin Luther King Jr. & The Civil Rights Movement [TIFF Review]

Robert Daniels

September 13, 2020 12:38 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It’s 1963, and throngs of Black folks have packed the National Mall for the March on Washington. Images of jubilant men and women holding flags, and dressed in their Sunday best, strewn across the screen. They...

WTF? ‘Shadow In The Cloud’ Is A Relentlessly Schizophrenic Mess Of A Movie [TIFF Review]

Jason Bailey

September 13, 2020 1:41 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Occasionally, in this line of work, you end up watching a movie bad enough to make you regret taking the assignment. Roseanne Liang's “Shadow In The Cloud” is a movie so bad, it made me regret choosing the pro...

‘I Care A Lot’ Unleashes Rosamund Pike in Her Best Role Since ‘Gone Girl’ [TIFF Review]

Marshall Shaffer

September 12, 2020 11:30 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Fans of “Gone Girl” who have been patiently waiting for star Rosamund Pike to sink her teeth into another delectably devious role, rejoice. J Blakeson’s “I Care a Lot” provides the best showcase of Pike’s dark...

‘Wolfwalkers’: Animated Irish Myth Is A Stirring Masterwork [TIFF Review]

Carlos Aguilar

September 12, 2020 9:23 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Irish mythology has found glorious ambassadors in director Tomm Moore and the team at animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Their Oscar-nominated titles “The Secret of Kells” (2009) and “Song of the Sea” (2014) are...

Ammonite Kate Winslet Saoirse Ronan Telluride

‘Ammonite’: Kate Winslet Is Terrific, But Francis Lee’s Lesbian Romance Is Too Cold & Distant [TIFF Review]

Tomris Laffly

September 11, 2020 11:15 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

When it comes to mood and milieu, writer-director Francis Lee prefers something bare, austere and quiet. In fact, it was the harmonious union of these severe qualities that furnished his 2017 feature debut, “G...

Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ Is As Vast As The American Landscape It Travels [Venice Review]

Jessica Kiang

September 11, 2020 4:00 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

In almost no way does Chloé Zhao's quiet, enormous, deep breath of a movie, "Nomadland," resemble "Blade Runner." Except there's this one moment: an outstanding speech in a film as attuned to vast wild silence...

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